Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

Found SE2 on a demo CD with 49 other games. Played SE2 first... and I don't even think I looked at the rest of the games. Ever since, I've been hardcore SE4.

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

I came across SE3 a few years ago when I was looking for space games at some game sites. I downloaded the demo and then I got addicted.

I have never played SE2, how was it?

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

Well, this isn't the first time I've told this. I was reading a PC Gamer magazine, and they had a review of SEIV Gold. I went down to my local Electronic Boutique, and they told me they had never heard of it. so I became intrigued. I d/l the demo, and due to my frustration of not understanding some of the aspects of the game (such as I didn't know at the time that you had to have people on the colony ships when you send them to another system), that I sent in a check to buy the game. The rest is history.

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

I was looking around in the SFB (Star Fleet Battles) web site and found a link to SE. Followed it and liked what I saw. I preordered Gold, and played the demo while I waited.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">BASIC!! But sure a lot of fun! colonize everything! without worry of atmosphere or planet type. And research. One item, one queue, all results. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

How did I learn about Space Empires? hmmm, some guy named Aaron Hall sent me an e-mail saying he liked my roguelike graphics and wanted to know if he could use them in a game he was developing (Called 'Venture Forth') a 2d overhead RPG in the style of Angband/Nethack/Rogue etc. I wanted to know more about this guy and he said he is the one who created Space Empires IV. He also mentionned his company was called Malfador Machinations. I couldn't exactly sell him the rights to a tileset that I had already made freely available in the roguelike community, so I worked out a deal where he could use them if he sent me a complimentry copy of SE4:Gold.

We know who got the better end of that bargain,.. ME! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Well, I also managed to convince him to upgrade the game to my isometric tiles and he liked that idea. I had fun making all kinds of new tiles and played with the UI and stuff. (Wanting to give the game a look that would match my retro tileset.) The end result you all know as Dungeon Odyssey.

Aaron seemed to value my working style and the experience I brought to the dev team, and invited me to beta StarFury. (It's always good to have an artist on any beta team, because you know we can't resist doing artwork at the drop of a hat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

While working on the SF Beta, Aaron asked if I would be interested in doing some UI stuff for SE:V (Yes he can ask silly questions sometimes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

Along this journey I met all you fine people and have had an absolute great time being an active member of this community.

So, what was the poll about? Oh yes, "How did you hear about SE4 Gold?"

I guess I can honestly say I heard about it directly from Aaron Hall himself, no second hand rumors, no hearsay, no advertisment, just a simple "Hi, I'm Aaron Hall, I created Space Empires and I really like your RPG tiles.." What a wonderful way to start a friendship.

Sorry for rambling, but this thread has sparked a nice walk down memory lane.

Thanks, and Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

I was looking for the old "Empire" game Online and found SE3. Downloaded it, loved it, bought it, continued to play it until a few weeks ago when I finally caved and bought SE4.

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Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

Was telling a friend how much I loved Empire Deluxe and trying to get him to buy it. He told me of the Online review of SE III. That led to occasional searches for SE III sites which lead to these forums which lead to......

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

I first started with SE2 back about 3 or 4 years ago (when I was about 12 years old!) I knew I loved strategy games, and was obsessed with space, so I tried an internet search for space strategy games, and Voila! there it was. SE2, the beginning of many, MANY hours of gaming fun!

After I found SE2, i went to Malfador's website and found SE3. After I played the demo to death, I finally bought the full Version and loved it.

After I got a little tired of that, I went back to Malfador's website, and found SE4. Downloaded the demo, played it for a LONG time, then finally couldnt' resist buying SE4 Gold. Best money I've ever spent.

Re: How did you hear about SE4 Gold?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I found this game back from SE2. I only had the demo to SE2 but I loved it. Me and my brother would play for hours upon hours against each other. I still love that game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif SE2 was on some demo disk we got in the mail from somewhere. I lost track of it for awhile and grew away from SE2. Then one day I felt like playing it a couple years ago and did a search, found malfadors website and found out they had SE4. At that time Gold was on pre-order. I downloaded the demo and haven't looked back. I never did play SE3.